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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
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Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Aurelius, Marcus

2.
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles

3.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace

4.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
Blake, William

5.
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
Lee, Robert E.

6.
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus

7.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Tolstoy, Count Leo

8.
Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
Billings, Josh

9.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Gabirol, Ibn

10.
Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.
Fitzhenry, R. I.

11.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Twain, Mark

12.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Russell, Bertrand

13.
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

14.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Rowland, Helen

15.
The wisest have the most authority.
Plato

16.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Seneca

17.
The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]
Bible

18.
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Borland, Hal

19.
Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.
Bible

20.
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Quarles, Francis

21.
Wise men still seek Him today.
Bell, Dan

22.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
Azai, Rabbi Ben

23.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
Talmud, The

25.
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
Elizabeth, Queen

26.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Blake, William

27.
Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
Evans, Bergen

28.
Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

29.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Santayana, George

30.
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
Edmund Burke

31.
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
Plato

32.
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Buddha

33.
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
James, William

34.
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
Proverb, African

35.
True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
Bouton, E. S.

36.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phaedrus

37.
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates

38.
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

39.
Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

40.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

41.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Bacon, Francis

42.
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
Cullen Hightower

43.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.
Marden, Orison Swett

44.
Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.
Smollett, Tobias G.

45.
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
Thurber, James

46.
The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]
Bible

47.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Franklin, Benjamin

48.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian

49.
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
Evangel

50.
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo


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